Jacob Kahan was born and raised in Lodz, Poland. He was 13 when the war started. His father, Moses, was drafted into the Polish army at the beginning of the war and never returned. His mother, Malka, and his sisters, Rose and Sara, tried to flee to Russia but they had to turn back. In November 1939 the Kahan family was removed by the Germans from Lodz and pushed into a ghetto in Krosno (Poland/now Ukraine). Jacob was selected for labor and sent to various camps in Poland and Germany including Rzeszow, Plaszow, a brief stay in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Czestochowa and finally Dora-Mittelbau in Nordhausen, where he worked as a slave laborer on the construction of V-1 and V-2 rockets. At the end of the war, Jacob was sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany where he and his friends were dumped and left to die. Jacob and his friends escaped from Bergen-Belsen and survived in the countryside until they were liberated by the British. After the war, Jacob searched for any remnant of his extended family and found none. His immediate family had been murdered when the ghetto in Krasno was liquidated in 1942. Jacob immigrated to the United States and settled in Atlanta, Georgia. Jacob discusses his family and life after the war, Jewish tradition and the skills he used to survive in the camps.